Are We There Yet?: Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism by Alison Byerly

Are We There but? digital go back and forth and Victorian Realism connects the Victorian fascination with "virtual trip" with the increase of realism in nineteenth-century fiction and twenty-first-century experiments in digital fact. whilst the growth of river and railway networks within the 19th century made trip more straightforward than ever prior to, staying at domestic and fantasizing approximately shuttle changed into a favourite hobby. New methods of representing place—360-degree panoramas, foldout river maps, exhaustive railway guides—offered themselves as substitutes for real trip. contemplating those representations as a kind of "virtual trip" finds a stunning continuity among the Victorian fascination with inventive dislocation and twenty-first -century efforts to take advantage of electronic know-how to extend the actual obstacles of the self.

Edmund Spenser, chosen Letters and different Papers offers the 1st released textual content of the diplomatic and private papers written, copied, and dealt with through Spenser in the course of his years of secretarial provider and colonial planting in eire, 1580-1589. those manuscript letters and papers characterize a wealthy source for the research of Spenser's poetry and prose - relatively his allegorical epic The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596) and his examine of Irishculture and executive, A view of the current kingdom of eire (1596) - giving extraordinary perception into the daily management of the recent English executive in eire, in either Dublin and Munster, in the course of a time of continuing warfare, international relations, social engineering, espionage, and plantation.

This variation presents the 1st entire, smooth model of John Norden's The Surveyor's discussion. Norden's textual content, a sequence of dialogues among a fictional surveyor and a number of other interlocutors—including a tenant farmer, an aristocrat landowner, a manorial officer, and a socially cellular land buyer—is striking for its distinct statement at the agrarian roots of English capitalism.

Operating from a cultural stories viewpoint, writer D. ok. Smith the following examines a extensive diversity of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to discover the results of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary illustration of cartographically-related fabric from the overdue 15th to the early 17th century demonstrates a brand new pressure, not only of geographical realizing, yet of cartographic manipulation, which he phrases, "the cartographic mind's eye.

This quantity examines the lodge event of Anglo-American tourists within the 19th century from the point of view of literary and cultural experiences in addition to spatiality idea. concentrating on the social and imaginary house of the resort in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and trip bills, the essays shed new gentle on nineteenth-century notions of commute writing.